What’s on
Museum of Failure Date: Venue:
Jan 18-March 17, 10 am
No 1 Shopping Center, Shanghai
The Museum of Failure is a collection of over 100 failed products and services from some of the world’s best-known companies. Visitors will get a insightful and entertaining glimpse into the risky business of innovation.
For every mega-success like the Apple iPhone, the VCR and the Ford Mustang, there’s a couple of Newtons, Betamaxes and Edsels that crashed and burned before them. This collection is carefully curated by licensed psychologist and innovation researcher Samuel West, and it hopes to convey that the acceptance of failure is necessary in order for innovation and progress to truly succeed.
Jan 22-29, 2 pm and 7:15 pm
Shanghai Grand Theater created
conductor in the United States at the time and a recognized music pioneer, was invited by Chicago businessman Charles Norman Fay to establish a symphony orchestra. Thomas served as music director until his death in 1905 — just three weeks after the dedication of Orchestra Hall, the orchestra’s permanent home, which was designed by Daniel Burnham.
Date: Jan 30-Feb 1, 7:30 pm Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing
The play will be presented by the National Theatre of China, a national arts group committed to the creation and performance of high-quality drama.
Shadow Play: Date: Venue:
Jan 19-27, 10 am and 2 pm
Ciro’s Performing Arts Theater, Shanghai
The story of Hua Mulan, a girl who disguises herself as a man and goes to war in place of her elderly father has been adapted for numerous film and television works.
This new shadow play version of the beloved story includes stunning sets, sentimental music and fantasy elements that breathe fresh life into an age-old art form.
Shadow plays using silhouette puppets have a history of more than 2,000 years in China. The puppets are projected onto a backlit curtain while their articulating limbs are manipulated by artisans behind the screen, typically to the accompaniment of music.
Film director Sherwood Hu is at the helm of the new show, which also incorporates filmmaking techniques and modern visual effects.
Heartbeat of Home, by the director of is a music and dance spectacular featuring the vibrant, dynamic components of traditional Irish, Latin and Afro-Cuban music and dance. The worldclass cast of 37 includes a 10-piece band creating a new and electrifying sound written by award-winning Golden Globenominated composer Brian Byrne.
It was produced by Moya Doherty, conceived and directed by John McColgan with concept development and lyrics by award-winning Irish writer Joseph O’Connor.
Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony
Date:
Venue:
Jan 25-26, 7:30 pm
National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing
Born in Naples, Italy, Riccardo Muti is one of the pre-eminent conductors of our day. In 2010, when he became the 10th music director of the world-renowned Chicago Symphony Orchestra, he had more than 40 years of experience at the helm of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra and Teatroalla Scala.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s distinguished history began in 1889, when Theodore Thomas, the leading
The Ride Down Mt. Morgan was written by Arthur Miller in his later years, and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play in 1999 and the Tony Award for Best Play.
In the play, Lyman is a successful insurance broker, but he is also a bigamist. One day, he gets into a traffic accident on Mt. Morgan and is sent to a local hospital. Both his wives show up to see him. In this fantastically dramatic play, an incredible but trenchant story is composed from the characters’ memories, interspersed with reality.
2019 Spring Festival Concert Date:
Venue:
Feb 1, 8 pm Shanghai Symphony
Hall
Chinese conductor Long Yu is artistic director of the Beijing Music Festival and the China Philharmonic Orchestra, music director of the Shanghai and Guangzhou Symphony Orchestras, co-director of the MISA Shanghai Summer Festival and principal guest conductor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
He played a leading role in establishing the Shanghai Orchestra Academy through a partnership between the New York Philharmonic and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, with collaboration from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
Inspire, presented by Shanghai Ballet, is a gala performance, with five independent ballet pieces created by three young choreographers from the Shanghai Ballet.
Fearless, pure and passionate, based on each individual’s own background and diverse characteristics, the three choreographers manage to project their understanding and perspective of the world through neoclassic and contemporary ballet languages, be it methodological thinking, silent resistance or the plausible world around them.
Feb 2-3, 7:30 pm Shanghai International Dance Center Experimental Theater